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BRUCE BARKER • Partner


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Bruce has been counseling clients on patent matters and defending them in litigation for over twenty years, formerly as a partner at two national law firms (Pennie & Edmonds and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich) and now as a member of Chao Hadidi Stark & Barker. He draws on this experience when advising clients on various patent matters such as portfolio analysis, IP due diligence, patent re-examination, product clearance studies, willfulness opinions, and licensing.

Bruce specializes in electronics and information technology. Before entering the field of law, he worked for three years as an electrical engineer for Apollo Computer and RCA Corp. In his law practice, he has worked extensively on matters involving networking technologies, electronic image processing, disk storage/RAID technology, touch screens, cryptography, microprocessor based control, signal processing, semiconductors, and software. He has also worked with medical device and biotechnology tools, such as ultrasound imaging, radiation therapy, micro-fluidics, and mass spectrometry.

Education
J.D. Boston University School of Law (1987).
B.S.E.E. Tufts University (1981)

Bar Memberships
Bruce is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and Washington DC. He is also admitted to practice before the United States patent and trademark office and the federal courts for the District of Massachusetts, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and Northern District of California.

Publications

Barker and Hadidi, “Patent Opinions, Willfulness and Inducement”, The Intellectual Property Strategist (June 2009).

“Why You Should Consider The ITC Option,” Managing Intellectual Property, April 2003 (Co-authored with Stewart Brown).


Our offices in California and Massachusetts provide the following services:

Patent Litigation

Patent Reexamination

Appellate Litigation

Patent Portfolio Analysis

Intellectual Property Sales and
  Licensing

Validity and Infringement
  Investigations

Representation Before the
  Board of Patent Appeals and
  Interference

Corporate Contract Review
  and Negotiation

Corporate Support for
  International, M&A, and
  Human Resources Matters